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TUPE Update - July 2016

Dr John McMullen

Wrigleys Solicitors LLP

In Wrigley’s latest TUPE update, Dr John McMullen focuses on the difference between a business transfer and a service provision change and SPC: an organised grouping of employees.

In Aguebor v PCL Whitehall Security Group the EAT helpfully discusses the interplay between the concept of a business transfer under reg 3(1)(a) of TUPE and a service provision change under reg 3(1)(b) of TUPE and reg 3 of the Service Provision Change (Protection of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006.

The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. On outsourcing or tendering for services there can be both a business transfer (although this is more difficult to establish in practice) and a service provision change. So if, for technical reasons a service provision

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